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7.0
That is the magnitude of the earthquake that hit the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula on Sunday. It triggered a volcano eruption and massive plumes of ash to blanket the region.
14,000
That is how many people in the U.K. have applied for government money because they say that they were harmed by the Covid vaccine. The government has reportedly only approved 2% of those claims.
11
That is how many death threats one White Woman For Harris has reportedly received since going viral. Friendly reminder: you can’t kill (or threaten to kill) people just for being annoying.
$30 million
That is how much Babe Ruth’s famous “Called Shot” jersey is expected to make when it is sold at auction next week.
56,050
That is how many people at the time of this writing have signed a Change.org petition directed at Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asking him to “Hold Raygun Rachel Gunn & Anna Mears Accountable for Unethical Conduct Olympic Selection” after her abysmal performance as the Australian breakdancer. Signers want an investigation into how she made the team and whether or not she benefited from unfair competition. She responded to the controversy here.
$36 billion
That is how much Mars paid to buy Pringles maker Kellanova.
26%
That was how much of the voting-age population turned out for Wisconsin’s election on Tuesday, a 60-year high for voter turnout.
16%
That is how much vocational school enrollment was up last year. This means that more students are trying to find vocational jobs instead of try their hand at four-year universities. The majority of them are men but more women are doing the same too.
$36 billion
That is how much Mars paid to buy Pringles maker Kellanova.
26%
That was how much of the voting-age population turned out for Wisconsin’s election on Tuesday, a 60-year high for voter turnout.
16%
That is how much vocational school enrollment was up last year. This means that more students are trying to find vocational jobs instead of try their hand at four-year universities. The majority of them are men but more women are doing the same too.
0
That is how many points Rachael Gunn, AKA Raygun, scored in the women’s Olympic Breaking competition but she is now immeasurably famous for being so terrible. I myself have spent countless hours on the memes. I can’t get enough but sadly this is all we’ll get because, according to The Telegraph, “breaking will not feature at Los Angeles 2028.” Shame.
11,000
That is how many boxes of chicken wings a school district employee in Illinois stole during the pandemic. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.
16
That is the age of U.S. track star Quincy Wilson. He is the “youngest male track and field athlete to compete in the Olympics.” The gold metal winner has to go back to high school now.
6-foot-5
That is the height of the Olympic wrestler from Cuba named Mijaín López. His nickname is El Terrible and this week he became “the first person ever to win gold in the same individual Olympic event five times.”
Doubled
That is how much Italy increased tax on foreign income for new residents. So much for retiring in Tuscany!
56%
That is the percent of Americans who oppose US troops defending Israel, according to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
$1
That is the price of a Wendy’s Frosty for the next six weeks to celebrate the last few weeks of summer.
4.75 seconds
That is how fast U.S. climber Sam Watson climbed a 15-foot wall, making him the fastest Olympian to travel vertically.
1
That is the age of Olympic skateboarder Andy Macdonald. He is the first British male to compete in the sport. He is competing against teenagers.
$1,000
That is the fine for wearing a mask in public in Nassau County, New York after lawmakers passed new legislation on Monday. There is an exception for medical or religious reasons.
$150,000
That is how much actor Ben Stiller donated in the Comics for Kamala Zoom call even though he says he’s not a comic, he’s an actor. He says he is especially excited by her mixed race because he wishes he was Black and that “every white Jewish guy wishes he was Black.”
Four
That is how many airplane-sized asteroids will fly near the Earth today, according to NASA.
$4 million
That is how much Beyoncé is reportedly planning to donate to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. She will also attend Harris rallies and allow the Vice President to use her music.
9.79 seconds
That is how fast American sprinter Noah Lyles ran the 100 meter race in the Olympics, making him the fastest man in the world.
17%
That is the percentage of overall shoe sales that are high heel sales, a drop from 47% in 2014. Shoe experts think that the pandemic flattened people’s feet because no one wore high heels at home and now we are collectively less conditioned to them.
15:30.02
That is how fast American swimmer Katie Ledecky swam the 1500 meter race, earning her a gold medal and breaking the Olympic record for the event.
Two
That is how many individual gold medals French swimmer Leon Marchand won in one day yesterday. He is the fourth swimmer to ever do that in the Olympic games.
5%
That is the new interest rate in England after a 0.25% cut, the first rate cut in the U.K. since 2020.